James Gurney

This daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney is for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers, comic artists, animators, art students, and writers. You'll find practical studio tips, insights into the making of the Dinotopia books, and first-hand reports from art schools and museums.

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However, you can quote images or text without asking permission on your educational or non-commercial blog, website, or Facebook page as long as you give me credit and provide a link back. Students and teachers can also quote images or text for their non-commercial school activity. It's also OK to do an artistic copy of my paintings as a study exercise without asking permission.

Thanks! I might never have seen this. The funny - and nice - thing is, that last line, "It takes him places he's always wanted to go" really applies more to the easel than to the car (with props to Subaru).

Hey! That's my car! Same color and everything. Well, almost everything. I swapped out the factory roof rack for a Yakima system to carry two canoes. This is my third Subaru since 1987. The type of four wheel drive they have makes a winter trip to Michigan's upper peninsula or Canada less intimidating. Thanks for posting this; like Tom I probably wouldn't have seen it otherwise (not a TV watcher...)

Believe it or not the art director called me for this job. He said they needed a landscape painter to do paintings that would appear in a Subaru commercial about a guy who used his Subaru to travel to remote locations to sketch. As often happens in TV they pulled out at the last minute saying they were changing the tone of the artwork they wanted to use.

I love my "mute" and "previous channel" buttons on my remote. They protect me from listening to the horrendous health problems, and the corresponding drugs that are supposed to help, commercials.When I saw this one the other day, my first thought was; my, my how plein air painting has grown in popularity to the point that one could expect to sell cars with it as a theme.Baby-boomer painters are 'everywhere'.